Microfibre expertise, advanced Monforts finishing technology and an endlessly inventive R & D team combine to give Italy’s Orsa a highly differentiated lead in the nonwovens industry. And the company continues to launch new products which are pushing nonwovens into entirely new fields of applications.
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As part of the Legano-headquartered Crespi Group – Europe’s largest producer of synthetic leather – the principal end user fields for Orsa’s products are in the footwear, automotive, household and industrial cleaning sectors.
Microfibre expertise, advanced Monforts finishing technology and an endlessly inventive R & D team combine to give Italy's Orsa a highly #
In addition to traditional needle punched fabrics, the company has been a front-runner in spun lace production, installing its first hydroentanglement line in the late 1980’s and a second some years later.
Microfibre expertise, advanced Monforts finishing technology and an endlessly inventive R & D team combine to give Italy's Orsa a highly #
However it quickly moved out of commodity wipes when the market ‘exploded’ from 2000 onwards.
Microfibre expertise, advanced Monforts finishing technology and an endlessly inventive R & D team combine to give Italy's Orsa a highly #
Based near Milan, Orsa’s specialisation in in-house polyester and polyamide microfiber production allows it to make nonwovens with very specific parameters bringing a range of competitive advantages in respect of properties such as absorbency, strength and volume, explained Production and Logistic s Manager, Giorgio Edefonti.
Microfibre expertise, advanced Monforts finishing technology and an endlessly inventive R & D team combine to give Italy's Orsa a highly #
“In addition, we are able to achieve microfiber fabrics which have almost no variation between their performance properties in both machine and cross directions – the MD/CD ratio, he said. This makes them extremely smooth and ideally suitable as printing substrates. They also find their way into specialist applications such as automotive finishing, prime cylinder head cleaning and even as separator layers for the electronic circuits employed in car airbags.
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Orsa’s reputation rests heavily on its special finishing prowess and, as such, the company invested in two Monforts Montex stenters; both supplied by local representative Sacconaghi Monaco Srl.
Microfibre expertise, advanced Monforts finishing technology and an endlessly inventive R & D team combine to give Italy's Orsa a highly #
The latest Montex with seven chambers and a 3.2 m working width, forms a critical part of a full line which incorporates both a dye padder and printing heads.
Microfibre expertise, advanced Monforts finishing technology and an endlessly inventive R & D team combine to give Italy's Orsa a highly #
“All our patterned microfiber cleaning products are produced on this line with impregnation, dyeing and printing followed by thermofixing in the Montex,” said Mr Edefonti. “The majority are then calendered to further enhance the finished aesthetics.”
Microfibre expertise, advanced Monforts finishing technology and an endlessly inventive R & D team combine to give Italy's Orsa a highly #
In addition to its own nonwovens, Orsa carries out the value added finishing of both third party materials and the special air laced fabrics containing pulp and cellulose fibres manufactured by its joint venture company Orma, which began production 10 years ago in Pisticci Scalo in Southern Italy.
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